1mo ago

This Printer company served you malware for months, called them false positives

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Procolored: Printer company serves malware für six months, claims "false positive" warnings

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1mo ago

This Printer company served you malware for months | The company is called Procolored

www.gdatasoftware.com /blog/2025/05/38200-printer-infected-software-downloads

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1mo ago

Procolored: This Printer company served you malware for months, called them false positives

www.gdatasoftware.com /blog/2025/05/38200-printer-infected-software-downloads

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The printer company is called Procolored.
- Also it’s for a UV printer, not an inkjet or laser printer, with the cheapest option on their website being $1900 and the average being around $6000. So, not a regular printer you would buy off the shelf. It’s still bad of course, but only so many people even could be impacted by it.
  
  Except you don't need to have bought one to be affected by it. Maybe your employer bought one, and infected a computer you use at work.
  
  That's almost worse. Because then you'll be more inclined to trust them.
- I'd have guessed HP
- Thank you. Cross-posted this to !savedyouaclick@lemmy.world.
Can you please add the company name in the title? If you want to keep original title, you can do it like this:
This printer company [Procolored]
Wow it’s not HP.
- In that case it wouldn’t be news.
- Btw, germany has a law about "Computersabotage". Wondering why HP & co still can make your paid (computer) hardware not working anymore?
- HP created a whole generation of militant anti-HP consumers long before Louis Rossman got involved.
  
  Yeah I’ve been bitching about their laptops too lately.
Good to see there are still viruses in the wild, I was beginning to think those kinda became some ancient forgotten form of art. [I mean proper viruses, not malware in general]
The fact they're still trying to blame "Chinese language" after presumably being provided with receipts?
- I think they meant they were using malware detection tools that would often flag it because of the Chinese language issue and just assumed that's what was up when it flagged it this time.
  Kinda like the boy who cried wolf, they ignored it when there really was a wolf.
  
  You're telling me there are malware detection tools that hit on the Chinese language? Like anything from China is malicious?
Looks like the printer company did not have antivirus on their systems.
- It was a false positive.
  Edit: I can't believe this needed a /s
  
  It was not
Why would anyone use the software? Aren't modern printers plug and play?
- Plug and auto install drivers and play
- This is not a typical home or office printer, very specialized.

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